Chapter Ii. Savage Ideas : Chapter II Savage Ideas Sagas and Mrchen--Fairy Tales based upon ideas familiar to savages--The Doctrine of Spirits--The Doctrine of Transformation--Totemism--Death--Witchcraft--The predominance of imagination over reason in savages--Method of the inquiry. FAIRY Tales, as defined in the previous...
Authors Preface : Authors Preface THE chief object of this volume is to exhibit, in a manner acceptable to readers who are not specialists, the application of the principles and methods which guide investigations into popular traditions to a few of the most remarkable stories embodying the Fairy superstitions...
Title Page : THE SCIENCE OF FAIRY TALES AN ENQUIRY INTO FAIRY MYTHOLOGY BY EDWIN SIDNEY HARTLAND [b. 1848 D. 1927] New York: Scribner & Welford [1891] Scanned And Redacted By Phillip Brown. Additional Formatting And Proofing By John B. Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain. This File May Be Used For Any...
Chapter Vi. Robberies From Fairyland : Chapter VI Robberies from Fairyland The tale of Elidorus--Celtic and Teutonic stories of theft from supernatural beings--The thief unsuccessful--Cases of successful robbery--Robbery from the king of the serpents--Robbery of a drinking-cup, or horn--The horn of Oldenburg and similar vessels...
Chapter Iii. Fairy Births And Human Midwives : Chapter III Fairy Births and Human Midwives. Stories of midwives who have been summoned to the birth of fairies--Human visitors to Fairyland must not eat there--The reason--Fairies' gratitude--The conditions of fairy gifts. A TALE, the scene of which is laid near Beddgelert, runs, as translated by...
Chapter Xii. Conclusion : Chapter XII Conclusion Retrospect--The fairies of Celtic and Teutonic races of the same nature as the supernatural beings celebrated in the traditions of other nations--All superstitions of supernatural beings explicable by reference to the conceptions of savages--Liebrecht's Ghost Theory of some...
Chapter Iv. Fairy Births And Human Midwives : Chapter IV Fairy Births and Human Midwives (continued) The magical ointment--Human prying punished by fairies, and by other supernatural beings--Dame Berchta--Hertha--Lady Godiva--Analogous stories in Europe--In the East--Religious ceremonies performed by women only--Lady Godiva a pagan goddess...
Chapter Ix. The Supernatural Lapse Of Time : Chapter IX The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland contd. The story not an early one--Its weirdest developments European--Stories of short time appearing long--Mohammed's night-journey and its variants--The Sleeping Hero, a heathen god--The Wild Hunt--The Enchanted Princess, a heathen goddess...
Untitled : Title Page Authors Preface Chapter I: The Art of Story-Telling Chapter II: Savage Ideas Chapter III: Fairy Births and Human Midwives Chapter IV: Fairy Births and Human Midwives (continued) Chapter V: Changelings Chapter VI: Robberies from Fairyland Chapter VII: The Supernatural Lapse of Time...
Chapter Viii. The Supernatural Lapse Of Time : Chapter VIII The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland contd. Ossian in the Tir na n'Og--The Island of Happiness--The Mermaid--Thomas of Erceldoune--Olger the Dane--The Sleeping Hero--King Arthur--Don Sebastian--The expected deliverer--British variants--German variants--Frederick...
Chapter Xi. Swan Maidens Contd : Chapter XI Swan Maidens contd. The incident of the recovery of the bride not found in all the stones--New Zealand sagas--Andrianro--Mother-right--The father represented under a forbidding aspect--Tasks imposed on the hero--The Buddhist theory of the Grateful Animals--The feather-robe a symbol...
Chapter X. Swan Maidens : Chapter X Swan Maidens The "mrchen" of Hasan of Bassorah--The Marquis of the Sun--The feather robe and other disguises--The taboo--The Star's Daughter--Melusina--The Lady of the Van Pool and other variants--The Nightmare. THE narratives with which we have hitherto been occupied belong to the class...
Chapter I. The Art Of Story Telling : Chapter I The Art of Story-Telling The art of story-telling--Unity of human imagination--Definition of Fairy Tales--Variable value of Tradition--Story-telling and the story-teller among various peoples--The connection of folk-tales with folk-songs--Continuity of Tradition--Need of accuracy...
Chapter Vii. The Supernatural Lapse Of Time : Chapter VII The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland The story of Rhys and Liewelyn--Dancing for a twelvemonth--British variants--Lapse of time among the Siberian Tartars--German and Slavonic stories--The penalty of curiosity and greed--A Lapp tale--The mother leaving her child...
Chapter V. Changelings : Chapter V Changelings The belief in changelings--Precautions against changing--Motives assigned for changing--Attempts frustrated--How changelings may be known--Their physical characteristics--Devices to lead them to betray themselves--Their subsequent treatment--Journey to Fairyland to fetch back...